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perspiry

/per-spahyuhr/US // pərˈspaɪər //UK // (pəˈspaɪə) //

灵感,鼓舞人心的,鼓舞人心,愿望

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v.无主动词 verb
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    per·spired, per·spir·ing.

    • : to secrete a salty, watery fluid from the sweat glands of the skin, especially when very warm as a result of strenuous exertion; sweat.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    per·spired, per·spir·ing.

    • : to emit through pores; exude.

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Examples

  • When you perspire, it remains next-to-skin, unable to evaporate.

  • The elderly generally don’t sweat or pump blood as efficiently as youngsters can, while children tend to perspire less and have greater surface-to-body-mass ratios.

  • If you don’t want to get sweaty during your workday, simply stop before you perspire, she says.

  • I was beginning to perspire; for the first time, I felt a flicker of anxiety.

  • He had begun to perspire, and he kept running his fingers round his neck between flesh and collar.

  • Mr. Wordsley began to perspire heavily, and the moisture ran down and puddled in his boots.

  • He does not so readily perspire excessively as other men, neither is there any want of free and easy perspiration.

  • It is a common opinion among the laboring portion of the community, that they who perspire freely, must drink freely.

  • The branch continued to "perspire" for two days, but gave off only about half the amount of water transpired by a normal branch.